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Speaker 3: Backup practice here for hour number two of the Drive.

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Speaker 3: On a busy Tuesday, important Tuesday, We've got some team

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Speaker 3: period going on in front of us here, Matt, and

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Speaker 3: it looks like it's with an emphasis on some heavy

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Speaker 3: run game here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I found interesting we were talking about before

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Speaker 4: we came back on air. The first rep or two,

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Speaker 4: the defense countered with four true D linemen and two

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Speaker 4: outside linebacker edge type guys. Now they went back to

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Speaker 4: their three four quickly after, but they had a lot

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Speaker 4: of beef on the field and really only three defensive

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Speaker 1: Just noteworthy.

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Speaker 4: I'm not actually explaining it away or why it happened,

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Speaker 4: but they were putting a lot of big people on

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Speaker 5: And it's not like it was a drive that was

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was interesting to me as well too.

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Speaker 3: We saw nice berst from Caleb Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good point.

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Speaker 3: And that's one of those things. Listen, you've laid this

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Speaker 3: out many times. I think everybody who with some football

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Speaker 3: savvy knows this as a rookie running back, like it

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Speaker 3: was a very nice Again, I don't know it's in,

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Speaker 3: but he did the same thing last camp before getting hurt.

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Speaker 5: He's doing the same thing again this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I just wonder if another team would use him properly,

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Speaker 4: you know, right, Yeah, that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Not using properly. It's not really a spot for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the better way to put it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: another team would look at him and go, oh, he

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Speaker 3: can fill this hole for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah we didn't we need that type of guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Hey, maybe there's maybe there's an opportunity there for somebody

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Speaker 3: else to capitalize if all other thirty one teams are

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Speaker 3: listening to Matt and I gush now on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this, Listen, as a running back, right,

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Speaker 3: you get drafted for your prowess in the run game.

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Speaker 5: Caleb Johnson is drafted for his speed, for his.

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Speaker 3: Burst, for his abiliting career backfield, for his ability particularly

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Speaker 3: I think to match that outside zone scheme that Arthur

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Speaker 3: Smith wants to run. But to get on the field

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Speaker 3: and stay on the field, you gotta be able to

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Speaker 3: pass block like that's the so I tell you what,

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Speaker 3: once he gets that down, once they're confident in him

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Speaker 3: in that regard, man, I got a feeling like we're

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Speaker 3: going to see him have a couple of special runs

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Speaker 3: this year. That whole thing that we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: We all know.

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Speaker 3: His floor was right there wasn't that ceiling of that

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Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley four home run touchdown run. I think we're

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Speaker 3: going to see that a couple times from Caleb Johnson

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and his forty time wasn't wonderful, but he broke

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Speaker 4: he has a track background. He definitely plays faster than

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Speaker 4: his forty times. I think people overreact at that.

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Speaker 3: Twenty two mile an hour on the GPS last year, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: which like only a handful of players in college football.

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Speaker 4: Did absolutely back to the pass protection though, I mean

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Speaker 4: he did it. He was okay, and backs and backers

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Speaker 4: better than he was. He's been right, and I think

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Speaker 4: there's an improvement there. And the thing is people might

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Speaker 4: defensive coordinator knows it and they start showing blitz and

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Speaker 4: Rogers has to audible to keep it back in, but

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Speaker 4: then you fall into their trap, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that's that's all the uh the chess match

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Speaker 3: that plays into this. And again, as as we've highlighted,

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Speaker 3: I just got the hiccups out of nowhere, Matt.

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Speaker 5: I was trying to hide it.

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Speaker 1: But now radio guys, worst nightmare.

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Speaker 3: And that happened a little bit last year where I think,

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Speaker 3: particularly when George Pickens was out injured, you were very predictable.

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Speaker 3: You were kind kind of tipping your cap based off

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Speaker 1: There, and yeah, that can be a problem.

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Speaker 4: And it does happen to teams late in the year

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Speaker 4: and there's only so many guys that can do so

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Speaker 1: But you definitely don't want that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, just because if Caleb Johnson turns into their

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Speaker 5: It's a dilemma.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a good word to put it.

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Speaker 3: And listen, we've seen the imp of it from him.

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Speaker 3: We're optimistic he's going to be able to get there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not doubting him. I'm just he's not there yet.

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Speaker 3: How much do you want to see him do that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be honest, I bet that's one of those

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Speaker 4: preseason's fine, but does he blocking a third string insideline back,

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Speaker 3: And it's not like they're they're bringing crazy blitzes or

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Speaker 3: and coverages like that in the preseason it's all very vanilla.

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Speaker 5: It's Jimmy's and Joe's right.

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Speaker 4: Because the big thing about protection too, that we didn't

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Speaker 1: You know, who who do I got?

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Speaker 4: And Rogers will help with that of course, But these

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 4: They come up with things specifically to test you, especially

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Speaker 1: Real quick.

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Speaker 4: Note you mentioned nause Like he wasn't great in protection

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a first round pick. You knew he's

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Speaker 4: And he certainly had the long arms and the size

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Speaker 5: Saying that you could see him improve every week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know, but he was he was

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Speaker 4: He'd run rounds, you know, or somebody else would come

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Speaker 4: in on third downs. You know, they had one hundred

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Speaker 3: They also had DeVante Smith and Jalen Wattall.

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Speaker 1: It's a good player, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, not as much on your plate when you're

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Speaker 4: Especially compared to like Kalo Johnson, who's was the major

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Speaker 3: Oh he accounted for like thirty eight percent of their

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Speaker 3: offense or something crazy last year, didn't he? And so yeah,

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Speaker 3: little different worlds there, certainly, as it looks like this

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Speaker 1: That was reasonably competitive, I did too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the offensive line is getting more pushed, like there's

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Speaker 3: no doubt. I think each unit is getting a little

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Speaker 3: more pushed, doing a little bit better at protection.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 4: There was plenty of good reps by the defense too,

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Speaker 4: and they blew up some runs, but there was mostly

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Speaker 1: The defense knows that. By the way.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so you've come off the ball a little

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Speaker 4: bit different expecting run. But I thought the offense moves

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree. Special teams period ongoing in front

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Speaker 5: Uh? Is that gain?

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Speaker 5: Is that gain? Well? I can't tell No, that's.

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Speaker 1: Not game Well, thank so it's something with a four man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure that's what. I just saw the

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Speaker 3: four at first and thought maybe fourteen. Oh no, that's uh,

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Speaker 3: that's Hurlman thirty four. Yeah, back there, back there, returning, Matt,

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Speaker 3: what do you say we take a break to year something?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I bet you.

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Speaker 5: Gets a shot in preseason to do it a couple

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Speaker 3: So we will keep an eye on, uh, Special teams

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Speaker 3: period in front of us here, keep you posted on

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Speaker 3: everything that's going on with practice. Also, Matt, little teaser

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Speaker 3: got a information packet from the National Football League on

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Speaker 3: the brand new Hawkeye Virtual Measurement technical explanation. So exactly

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Speaker 3: how for those who run familiar the first downs now

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Speaker 3: in the NFL can be measured digitally, can be measured

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Speaker 3: with cameras. You're not gonna have to bring out the

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Speaker 3: chain gang all the time and that like we've in

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Speaker 3: the past.

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Speaker 4: I just got I, like many others, thought that should

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Speaker 4: have been done fifteen, ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 5: We had HD cameras and all this technology.

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Speaker 1: And we can save it.

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Speaker 4: But I do think one of the more humorous things

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Speaker 4: when we look back on this five years of NFL

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Speaker 4: history is there's two fellas that hold a stick with

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Speaker 4: ten yards of chain in between, and they come running out,

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Speaker 4: Like I still think that's kind of hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Like that hasn't changed in nineteen forty, has it?

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Speaker 3: No, it is not, but it will change in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. Yeah, So I got all the inside scoop

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Speaker 3: on that. Maybe we'll get to that in the final

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Speaker 3: hours of show. After practice as well too, planning to

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Speaker 3: get too as we roll along West Shuler Matt Williamson's

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Speaker 5: Back of Practice.

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Speaker 3: Here on a nice day for it in Latrobe, mid seventies,

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Speaker 3: Little cloud cover, good day to be out here. He

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Speaker 3: won't be sweating buckets as a My goodness, that's just

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Speaker 3: a booming punt from camp.

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Speaker 1: Good Lord.

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Speaker 4: So while we were at break, you took a little

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Speaker 4: potty break, and I was watching the pump returners.

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Speaker 5: My hiccups, getting my hiccups.

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Speaker 4: That deal dealt with. So Austin's ought out there returning punts.

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Speaker 4: We assume he's the one.

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Speaker 1: Right, correct? Was Miller listed as the two when we

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Speaker 1: did the depth charts question?

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Speaker 5: If you give me just a sinking here again.

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Speaker 4: Because the three gentlemen returning punt today are Miller, Hurlman,

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Speaker 4: who we think can do that well, and Woods, who's

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Speaker 4: had a really good career. I don't know what his

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Speaker 4: background returning punts is. He muffed like three or four

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Speaker 4: in a row.

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Speaker 3: Ye, Scotty Miller is listed as the two and there's

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Speaker 3: nobody behind him, and he's out there now.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, but Woods, I don't know if he's just

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Speaker 4: never done it, and this is just you know, he's

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Speaker 4: probably gonna be active on game.

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Speaker 5: Day, so at least give him emergency.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or maybe did eight years ago or his rookie

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Speaker 4: year in college or whatever. But he struggled and there

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Speaker 4: were some good punts, don't get me wrong, but man,

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Speaker 4: well he should muff three out of four.

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Speaker 5: No, you should not, I mean absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: That's a good way, not for them to ask you

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Speaker 1: to go out.

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Speaker 5: There exactly right.

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Speaker 3: That's like he's going to get another opportunity here, Now

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Speaker 3: that's a good punt from Corless weightman man, and he

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Speaker 3: will get that one clean one and split the defense there.

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Speaker 3: All right, well hey better, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, all right, he just it was just noteworthy, Like, dude,

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Speaker 4: catch that was Miller sixteen has not had a lot

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Speaker 4: of luck catching these puns.

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Speaker 5: No, oh, that was Miller.

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Speaker 1: You're right, yep.

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Speaker 3: And so okay, here we go now here, here, here

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Speaker 3: comes here comes Robert Woods again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're not gonna let me. Okay, hurlans like

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Speaker 1: I want this one too.

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Speaker 3: He slips there a little bit trying to catch it.

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Speaker 1: Cam to give Woods a shot.

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Speaker 3: No, nope, maybe let's see Nope, looks like Herleman wants

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Speaker 3: this one again. Man camp Johnson, just man, he crushes

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Speaker 3: crushes those things.

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Speaker 5: It's great to see. It's exciting to see.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: They also have Williams out there, Keyshawn Williams Indiana.

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Speaker 1: I have not seen him field one draft. Yeah, agent, yep.

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Speaker 1: That's probably about the the end of it too. It

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Speaker 1: looks like.

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Speaker 3: The offensive linemanter chomping at the bit to get back

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Speaker 3: out here on the field.

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Speaker 4: But just news Newsworthy stashed that away. If Robert Woods

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Speaker 4: makes a team and he's active and there's an injury

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Speaker 4: and you got to ask him to return pints.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's than today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no doubt as hopefully that will be a

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Speaker 3: bridge that we don't have to cross.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we never bring never bring that up again.

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Speaker 3: One of those training camp nuggets that we might remember

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Speaker 3: if if it ends up happening in some live action.

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Speaker 3: But for now, it looks like we are going to

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Speaker 3: have some live action maybe some team period here, Matt.

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Speaker 1: So we will t J. Watt out there, I know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll be excited for.

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Speaker 3: This as it looks like let's see up say all

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Speaker 3: the way and Proderick Jones both in as well too.

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Speaker 5: Gotta love it.

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Speaker 3: Faltanu and Broderick Jones a little high five before they

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Speaker 3: get started here. Darnell Washington checking in as well too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this looks like the one D minus high Smith

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Speaker 4: Ramsey Cam Cam Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I think I think that is correct, probably

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Speaker 3: the closest that we've seen.

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Speaker 5: All hands on deck for the ones here to see.

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Speaker 1: T J. Watt, will you put there right now?

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Speaker 5: Sleighs out there.

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Speaker 1: We need the nickel, ye, Brandon Eckles and so.

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Speaker 3: It'll be uh something to keep an eye on here

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Speaker 3: as we get going, and the offense they do.

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Speaker 1: At least have Washington and Friar Mooth. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they have another tight end out there.

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Speaker 3: Roman Wilson out there. Johnny Smith is on the sideline

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Speaker 3: down here to our left.

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Speaker 4: And we mentioned Wilson and Wilson showed up on the

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Speaker 4: threes in the depth chart, but here he is with

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Speaker 4: the ones as we speak, you know, right.

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Speaker 3: And that's why again, Hey, that depth chart matters, but

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Speaker 3: it's also not the end all be all, certainly not

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Speaker 1: It'll be so twelve personnel.

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Speaker 3: He's out there, he is out there. Nope, that's that's

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Speaker 3: that's yeah. Yep, Calvin Austin not dressed today. Austin's taking

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Speaker 3: Jalen Warren in the backfield. Is it's a quick slant

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Speaker 3: out to quick out out to Roman Wilson. That would

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Speaker 3: have been a nice, nice five yard pick up there

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Speaker 3: on first down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, first and ten. Stuff that move the chains. You

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Speaker 1: don't happy with it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Absolutely? Offensive line held up. Well there, let's see.

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Speaker 3: I'm interested to watch Faltanu against here on this near

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Speaker 3: side as the offense will huddle up again. Scotty Miller

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Speaker 3: checks in, Connor Hayward checks in Washington and Mouth.

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Speaker 5: Checking at.

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Speaker 3: Still the same for the defense, still stuff Sleigh out

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Speaker 3: there near side. It'll be Scotty Roman, Wilson and DK

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Speaker 3: Metcalf to the right, with Connor Hayward to the left,

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Speaker 3: the Jayalen Warren in the backfield. Rogers gets the snap

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Speaker 3: and he's gonna dump that over the screen. Yeah, well

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Speaker 3: moving there, Zach Frasier and Sayamlu getting out in space

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Speaker 3: and setting up some blocks, and I think that would

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Speaker 3: have been a nice pick up there as well too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little too much pressure from the left side

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Speaker 4: when they were setting up on a right side screen.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Rogers was thrilled with that part. I

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Speaker 4: don't think probably needed another half second to really pull

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Speaker 4: that off. But the lineman on the right side set

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Speaker 4: that up well and got downfield as they should.

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Speaker 5: Sure did as Jalen Warren will check out here.

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Speaker 4: I do think it is noteworthy, as you mentioned Roman

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Speaker 4: Wilson getting extensive plenty of that's.

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Speaker 5: A good way to put it.

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Speaker 3: Rogers work as he will stay out there along with

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Speaker 3: DK Metcalf, Pat Fryarmuth and they've got Galladay split out

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Speaker 3: wide now as well, with Caleb Johnson in the backfield.

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Speaker 3: Mouth moves in motion from left to right. Now back left.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers gets a snap looking DK's way, throws it

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Speaker 3: that way up high. Ooh and DK high pointed that one.

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Speaker 3: But I think Pierre just had a hand in there.

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Speaker 4: He could have high pointed better. It's a back shoulder

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Speaker 4: fade that he tried the chest catch and twist his

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Speaker 4: body to shield where in that case, I think you

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Speaker 4: want to pluck that over your head. And I love DK,

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Speaker 4: and I do think that there is a little bit

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Speaker 4: of a misconception with him that he's a one for

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Speaker 4: one with Pickens. His contested catch stuff is not Pickens

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Speaker 4: esque of going up high, pointing, contorting it, slabbing it

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Speaker 4: way above your head despite you being huge. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I know he had to highlight one handed go at

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Speaker 4: your last practice or whatever, and he could do it.

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Speaker 1: But don't think he's Pickings as an acrobat as much

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Speaker 1: few people are. Right. Oh, he's as good as areas

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers back now looking to throw downfield. Roman Wilson

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Speaker 3: well covered. Instead, He'll check it.

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Speaker 5: Down to move. Yeah, would have been a first down

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Speaker 5: on like a third and five type situation, well covered by.

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Speaker 1: Queen Still themself. No, he wanted that he forget who

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Speaker 1: the corner was.

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Speaker 4: But they also did your job. But Pierre there he did.

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Speaker 4: But if you go up and be big and don't

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Speaker 4: let him do that, don't let the ball come to you,

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Speaker 4: go snatch it. I think that's what Rogers would have

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Speaker 4: wanted there. Now he's talking about boy.

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Speaker 5: Fraser Fraser having a little conversation.

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Speaker 3: I think they might have been talking about that screenplay

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Speaker 3: because they're kind of talking about some movement. It looks

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Speaker 3: like with their hands they're talking about some movement stuff.

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Speaker 4: But we talked about this last week's screens take a

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Speaker 4: lot of time to get in terms of timing, No doubt,

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Speaker 4: good pass rush there by one of the big dudes

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Speaker 4: as a shirt up.

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Speaker 3: That's a problem all the cross the crop tops, the

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Speaker 3: crop tops are all the rage out here, Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 3: I tell you that's Harrison, right fIF it is, yes, Harrison. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's as you can see the numbers clearly from behind.

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Speaker 2: It.

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Speaker 3: It's just when they're facing you that it gets to

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Speaker 3: be a problem them to flip over.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Gain Well, still in there with Mason Rudolph, Jack Sawyer out.

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Speaker 5: For the defense, as is de Marvin.

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Speaker 1: Lee almost exclusively playing on the edge.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe it was one of those things like that,

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Speaker 5: you know, hey, her BIG's out. You know we're part

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Speaker 5: of me. Let's let's see what you got there. You

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Speaker 5: already lost Jeremiah Moon last week.

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Speaker 3: There's Rudolph now will do a check with me and

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Speaker 3: the shotgun takes a snap looking left, gets rid of

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Speaker 3: it quickly.

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Speaker 5: Well defended there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, on the on Deshaun Jamison there making a nice

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Speaker 3: play to break to break that one up intended for

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Speaker 3: Ben's chronic as we've seen, We've seen a lot of

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Speaker 3: guys in the secondary making plays today too.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think it's been some big dogs sitting out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is which has been encouraging to see. I

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Speaker 3: think better day for the offensive line out here overall.

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Speaker 3: I think the defensive backs have made some nice plays

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Speaker 3: as well too, with with Ramsey getting a vets day

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Speaker 3: and and uh Porter Junior and Darius Slay getting maybe

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Speaker 3: a light day if you will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are different degrees of you know,

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Speaker 1: sitting out or participation. It's a better way to put it.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Still Mason Rudolph in the gun snap back, he's

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Speaker 3: got tray sermon in the flat, he will head that way.

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Speaker 3: A little third down simulation there would have been a

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Speaker 3: nice pick up for the offense. Definitely moved the sticks. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: well executed well protected by the offense there. They slipped

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Speaker 3: tray sermon out quickly what would have been a nice

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Speaker 3: probably seven r eight yard game and moving the sticks

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Speaker 3: there as Uh, the offense is better today, Matt definitely, definitely, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not. I don't know that they're winning,

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Speaker 1: but it's better.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, right, ro doubt maybe closer to that sixty

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Speaker 3: forty that we were that we were talking about. Good point,

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Speaker 3: as looks like Mason will stay in a few more

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Speaker 3: reps here for the second team. JJ gallbreath in at

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Speaker 3: tight end. Looks like the typical second team offensive line.

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Speaker 3: Doug Nestor bumping up the left guard here. Now, which

451
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Speaker 3: is another one is he was listed his right tackle

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Speaker 3: on the depth chart, but I think we've seen him

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Speaker 3: much more at guard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a guard pretty much only.

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Speaker 3: But again that's one of those things you don't put

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Speaker 3: a crazy amount of stock into it. As Rudolph looking

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Speaker 3: for Kenneth gainwell there, just a little bit out of

458
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Speaker 3: his catch radius. Still got his hands on it, but

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Speaker 3: not able to bring that one in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he turned around and just kind of sat

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Speaker 4: down versus his own and I think Rudolph wanted to

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Speaker 4: lead him so he could do more after the catch. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but he also was kind of flat footed, you know.

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Speaker 4: Numbers to Rudolph there. So they always blame the quarterback

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Speaker 4: for that, but I mean, I think the quarterback's trying

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Speaker 4: to get more out of the play than just catch

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Speaker 4: it and get tackle the situation too.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's well said. As we've got Skylaton up sitting

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Speaker 3: now checking into the game. He doesn't get a lot

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Speaker 3: of action, but he's going to get some here. He'll

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Speaker 3: be in the shotgun tray, sermon sidecar to his right,

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Speaker 3: four wide receivers, three to left, one of the right,

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Speaker 3: Thompson's back. Good pressure there, but able to dump that

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Speaker 3: one off for another screen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're.

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Speaker 3: Working the working the screen game here today having some

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Speaker 3: success doing it as well too.

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Speaker 4: It makes me wonder if we're going to see more

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Speaker 4: of them this year, you know, just because I've seen

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Speaker 4: a fair amount of screens the last two, three, four,

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Speaker 4: practices is something that they're going to keep repping, keep

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Speaker 4: repping and try to get involved.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Hey, they do have athletic linemen.

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Speaker 3: They've got athletic linemen. They've got some tight ends that

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Speaker 3: can block and move as well too. Yeah. So yeah, interesting, certainly,

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Speaker 3: certainly I think one of the one of the nuggets

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Speaker 3: here of camp that we've seen over the last couple

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Speaker 3: of practices, trying to get that screen game going. Our

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Speaker 3: ground screw guys have the big flat hammer thing out. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: getting ready to getting ready.

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Speaker 1: I was watching him earlier.

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Speaker 3: Tristan Thompson in the shotgun again. He's got Max Harlman

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Speaker 3: brings JJ gallbreath in motion.

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Speaker 4: Pressure again Skyler Thompson, I know, good lord as that

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Speaker 4: was good one to Rob Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Blitz found the hole in the blitz immediately boom hit Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Big game.

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Speaker 3: Nice pass by Skyler to rock Taylor there, good good,

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Speaker 3: nice and timed out and executed well. As Uh, this

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Speaker 3: team period in front of us will continue. What do

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Speaker 3: we say we get to a break here, Matt will

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Speaker 3: bring you the end of practice, maybe some some fun

504
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Speaker 3: more drills to go here. As we roll along into

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Speaker 3: the final stages of this practice for the Steelers after

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Speaker 3: this one, just four more open practices out here at

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Speaker 3: training camp.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have you even't gotten out here yet. You

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Speaker 1: better make some plan.

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Speaker 3: Time is running out, no doubt. One last rep here

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Speaker 3: before we go to break. Skyler Thompson in the gun

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Speaker 3: three wide receivers brings Connor Hayward in motion.

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Speaker 5: From left to right.

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Speaker 3: Now he gets the snap back looking right. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: get rid of this one quickly.

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Speaker 1: Oh kind of pushed him out of back push.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little, a little high there, intended for Kyshawn Williams,

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Speaker 3: but trying to get that one out with some pressure

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Speaker 3: in his face.

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Speaker 1: Good play design. That would have been first down on

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Speaker 1: third and five. Absolutely and absolutely left.

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Speaker 3: Just a half second too late there doing some tamp

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Speaker 3: Crowns crews doing some tampa, and I think we're going

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Speaker 3: to be moving to a new period here.

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Speaker 1: Shortly.

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Speaker 3: We'll take a break, come back, bring you the conclusion

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Speaker 3: of practice and all that good stuff on the other side,

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Speaker 5: Matt.

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Speaker 3: I hate it when we go to break at the

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Speaker 3: worst possible time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot happened there.

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Speaker 5: He was the host of this show.

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Speaker 3: Goodness, gracious, he doesn't know what he's doing. As perhaps

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Speaker 3: maybe the best team period we've seen from Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: in the past game just over the last five minutes

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Speaker 3: in front of us.

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Speaker 4: Here, right as we were at break, I thought so,

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Speaker 4: I thought it was really sharp. He started just dicing

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Speaker 4: the defense up and protection was good. Guys were coming,

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Speaker 4: free balls coming out of his hands great, like everything

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Speaker 4: he kind of hoped for, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: A couple of nights Woods and hey dark to Connor Hayward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that like almost stuck in his face mask, like.

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Speaker 3: Hit Connor Hayward so violently in his face mask. It

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Speaker 3: bounced into the air, was actually intercepted by Patrick Queen.

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Speaker 3: But that not on Aaron Rodgers at all.

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Speaker 4: No, that's on Hayward one hundred percent. You need to

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Speaker 4: get your head around there and make that catch actually

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Speaker 4: for a big gain as opposed to a negative play

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Speaker 4: which ended up happening, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But encouraging period there for Aaron Rodgers in the first

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Speaker 3: team offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was watching Faltanu. He's holding his own to

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Speaker 4: say his say the least the line's holding up. Well,

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Speaker 4: it was a really good stretch right there.

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Speaker 3: Some unfortunate news to share though while we were in

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Speaker 3: the break as well too, and that is Will Howard.

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Speaker 5: Leaving practice with an injury.

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Speaker 3: More than that, you know, according to some of our

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Speaker 3: our intrepid journalists down on the side, Will Howard left

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Speaker 3: practice and was taken back towards the locker room sitting

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Speaker 3: on the front of a cart with a trainer. Now,

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Speaker 3: remember everybody is training camp, okay, but that that's really

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Speaker 3: all that anybody has. That explains why we saw Skylar

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Speaker 3: Thompson bumping up and working with the third team there

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Speaker 3: right before we went to break. But certainly something to

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Speaker 3: keep an eye on. Will Howard's status going forward here

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Speaker 3: as well too, as he has exited practice early.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll just keep an eye on him. Maybe we

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Speaker 1: don't see him tomorrow. Who knows. I don't know the

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Speaker 1: extent of it.

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Speaker 5: He's fine, and it's just a you know, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: no one, No one knows for sure.

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Speaker 1: Offensive opened a nice hole up the middle there for

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Speaker 1: gain well too.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, starting to starting to see and game Will

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Speaker 5: continues to part man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, breaking attack, do it a little side step

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Speaker 3: in the backfield and breaking a tackle.

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Speaker 4: And the receiving stuff looks really good. They're route running

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Speaker 4: and all that too. But yeah, again he held. He

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Speaker 4: did really good backs on backers period too, So good stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm also shocked again Mike Tomlin is in shorts today.

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Speaker 3: He's slipping the second time this camp, and it's the

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Speaker 3: only two times I remember in my eight years being around.

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Speaker 1: Of him wearing head to toe black.

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Speaker 5: Head to toe black.

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Speaker 3: Usually.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He's even got nice pick up by nice move by

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Speaker 3: Schronic there to free up a little space down a

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Speaker 3: period for the offense.

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Speaker 5: I think so too. And again not even to say

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Speaker 5: that they're winning, but they are finally getting.

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Speaker 3: There in this period, in this period, yeah, no doubt,

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Speaker 3: no doubt, but they're they're definitely.

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Speaker 1: That was some ones versus ones and all that too.

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Speaker 5: You know, it wasn't as you mentioned, t J. Watt

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Speaker 5: was out there.

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Speaker 3: I mean no no Cam Hayward, no no Jalen, but

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Speaker 3: no high Smith.

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Speaker 5: But other than that, it was.

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Speaker 3: Basically all hands uh, all hands on deck. I think

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Speaker 3: Roman Wilson's having a having a nice practice out here

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Speaker 3: so far today. So there's been a there's been a

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Speaker 3: lot to be encouraged the build off of from the

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Speaker 3: offensive standpoint, no doubt. That's kind of the if I

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Speaker 3: was a if I was a you know again one

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Speaker 3: of these real journalists who had to write a story

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Speaker 3: of practice every day, that might be your lead right there,

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Speaker 3: you know, somebody offense to build off of here today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah again, and it was a full blown team you know,

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Speaker 4: physical you know, uh period and the offense clearly won.

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Speaker 1: And the quarterback looked like a big time quarterback there

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Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right through some lasers, man, through some absolute darts out

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Speaker 3: there is we've got our guy, Stephen Jones at right

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Speaker 3: tackle out here.

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Speaker 1: Now, so he's in line up against the alty much exclusively.

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Speaker 3: Just gonna say, yeah, it'll be it'll be fun rep

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Speaker 3: to watch these two here as uh, Skyler Thompson is

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Speaker 3: in most work. Skyler's got absolutely absolutely he moves DJ

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Speaker 3: Thomas Jones, who's back at practice today. Good to see

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Speaker 3: him back there. He moves from left to right in motion.

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Speaker 3: The give gonna be to Tray Sermon. He's able to

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Speaker 3: cut through there. Yeah, and found little laying there and

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Speaker 3: rode off well by Stephen Jones there, I thought the

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Speaker 3: same thing. Yeah, so hey, I like to see it

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Speaker 3: for the offense. Yeah, I like to see it from

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Speaker 3: the offense certainly, as it looks like they're going to

645
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Speaker 3: continue this period matriculate down the field. Maybe they'll flip

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Speaker 3: around here. I'm hoping in another minute or two and

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Speaker 3: we'll get another look at the ones. Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 3: coming over to uh talk to well. I thought he

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Speaker 3: was going to talk to Mike Tomlin there for a second.

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Speaker 3: Now he's talking to Tray Sermons.

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Speaker 1: No, he's always complimenting people and being involved.

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Speaker 3: In talking to Pat Meyer, talking to different coaches and

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Speaker 3: different players. What's everybody seeing what's everybody doing? Skyler Thompson

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Speaker 3: still in shotgun. He's got Hurtleman to his left. Have

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Speaker 3: to give is to Hurleman and that'd be a short

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Speaker 3: gain up the middle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That was well played by the edge of offender there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sniffed out well there by by Peyton or not

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Speaker 3: by Peyton. Wilson part of me, Devin, Harper and Liota

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Speaker 3: is the one I thought the shine there free Yeah

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Speaker 3: fifty three. Liota got first contact on him and then

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Speaker 3: Harper kind of cleaning up mop up duty there.

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Speaker 1: Leota is another one of these bigger edges.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's an interesting one too. We've said his name

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00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 3: a lot throughout camping.

666
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 4: Fields between Liota, Sawyer and now Leal A bulky Preston

667
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 4: Smith like edge.

668
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 3: You know they're not they got they got some going

669
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 3: to Baltimore into right, just screams Ravens about him as

670
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 3: uh DJ Thomas Jones in motion one more time here

671
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 3: from left to right again. Thompson looked like he was

672
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 3: going to take the snap, will now bark out some

673
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 3: instructions instead, takes a snap quickly.

674
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 5: Out to the left.

675
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: Nice played by your w but the porter on that

676
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 3: one quickly. I don't know, am I still allowed to?

677
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 3: I mean, I got no hard I got no hard feelings.

678
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 3: I know this is the nil era.

679
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, at least showed up at your campus that count.

680
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 5: There for a couple of years.

681
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 3: It was part of a part of a part of

682
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: a solid team in twenty twenty that COVID year before.

683
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 3: And listen, I mean, hey, if you a lot of

684
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: people move from the north down to down to the

685
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 3: south and oh yeah, find uh find find happiness and

686
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 3: the changes in weather and all those different things. Is

687
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 3: now we're going to have a little special teams. Yeah.

688
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: I think that was kind of a a two minute drill,

689
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 4: but it was how far can you take us? And

690
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 4: then we don't have the privilege to see in the clock,

691
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: you know, can you get this this field goal to

692
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 4: win it?

693
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: And I think that's a good.

694
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's good. Looks looks like you nailed

695
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 5: it right down the middle there and.

696
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: The horn special teams during this.

697
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 3: Period, and yes, I think we will go to special

698
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 3: teams and then maybe have one more one more period

699
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: to rapt this thing up. Afterwards we'll see, all right, Yeah,

700
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 3: but I tell you what high energy practice here a

701
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 3: lot going.

702
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: On so far as we know, it's been a step

703
00:30:59,000 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: forward for the offense.

704
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 4: Yes, which I think is you know, so what we

705
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 4: opened the show talking about before we knew how this

706
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 4: was going to transpire.

707
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 5: Love it when a plan comes together.

708
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

709
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: And that's what you that's what you wanted to see

710
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: from the offense today this week, you know, rolling into Jacksonville,

711
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 3: some type of momentum. You know, we could talk about

712
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 3: a couple of the regulars being out for the defense,

713
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: but still I think a very very solid showing for

714
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: the offense today comparatively to what we've.

715
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: Seen so far.

716
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, progress, no doubt, no doubt, something to something to

717
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 3: build on, some progress. There is now special teams in

718
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 3: front of us, the offensive line far out of the field.

719
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 4: This is that punt coverage. They want you to run

720
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 4: down the middle of that the tackling dummy, not around them,

721
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 4: they go right through them.

722
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 5: Keep your balance right, ye, keep your keep your center

723
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 5: of gravity and uh.

724
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 4: Drop your feed break down break down, Yeah, and be

725
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 4: able to change direction and make the play.

726
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 5: As this is uh, this is Danny Smith period now happening.

727
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 4: It's kind of a rapid fire too. There is at once,

728
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 4: and there's like ten lines of them. A lot of

729
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 4: thirty guys get a rap right away, you know, it's

730
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 4: a lot to watch.

731
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly, I think this is something you go back

732
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: and watch the tape if you're Danny and like, yeah,

733
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: hard to watch all three or one?

734
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 5: Exactly right, exactly right. How these guys moving and all

735
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 5: those different things is now and the.

736
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: Running again, it's just rapid fire, rapid fire, rapid fire.

737
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the assembly line scouting that I often say, like, yeah,

738
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 4: watching the quarterbacks throw at the combine, there's real value.

739
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 4: They're all doing the exact same thing. And who's the best.

740
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not sure you and I could tell

741
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: you right now. Off you know how fast things are going.

742
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 4: But if I consider and rewind and break down and

743
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 4: be like, well, he doesn't break down as well as

744
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 4: he does, or he's only doing this drill seventy five percent,

745
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 4: he's not come off the line as fast as he should,

746
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 4: you know, right, Yeah, but you could definitely see the

747
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 4: standouts when you watch them one after another after another.

748
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 5: Oh, you certainly can.

749
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 3: And that's you're right, that assembly line scouting. It's fun

750
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 3: at the combine. It's fun out here as well too.

751
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 3: That's one of the original things that we talked about

752
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 3: with Aaron Rodgers was just how the ball just looks different, Yeah,

753
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: coming off of his hands compared to everybody else.

754
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: But even like some old school special teamers like her

755
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: BIG's out there.

756
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: Yeah you know doing this too, you know what I mean,

757
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 3: like kill Brus, go through all the motions.

758
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, as I'm.

759
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 4: Sure they're the names you would think mostly out there

760
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 4: the bottom of the roster, Gouty getting ready to course

761
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 4: special teamers. If I did find interesting that her Big

762
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 4: was still out there, yeah, Sawyers getting a lot of

763
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 4: special lot of special teams, which makes sense absolutely.

764
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: I think you need to find that out. And I'm

765
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: sure he'll be fine at it, but you know, we'll see.

766
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's like riding a bike for him, but it's

767
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 3: been a while since he's ridden that bike.

768
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

769
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a for him to be your fourth

770
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 4: outside linebacker on game day, he has to be involved

771
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 4: in teams.

772
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 3: He does, he does as it looks like now and

773
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 3: maybe getting into field goal or punt field goal, field goal.

774
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure why the dummies are still out there.

775
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 3: And you got Cam Johnson playing pseudo kicker here. Yes,

776
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 3: they're just working on working on field goal blocks.

777
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he did one of them. Okay, I

778
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: don't think this needs a whole lot of work.

779
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 3: I think it was like a quick thing that he

780
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 3: called for from the sideline, just to see how those

781
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 3: guys could could pop out and get.

782
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what they did. Yeah, how fast

783
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: can you get at It was like, hey.

784
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 5: Real quick, let's line up and field goal block?

785
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: Quick, quick, quick, going exactly exactly the clocks running down was.

786
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 3: Like waving everybody over and screaming and yelling and get going.

787
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 3: And now they're doing the little uh, the little swim

788
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 3: past a block drill that we've described and can you

789
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 3: can you get behind your man and go find the ball?

790
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: And it's all it's all very meticulous out here, Williamson,

791
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 3: but the.

792
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 4: Very Danny Smith and very special teams esque. A lot

793
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 4: of people get a lot of reps in these periods,

794
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 4: one after another after another after another after another. You know,

795
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 4: like even if each guy only gets two or three

796
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 4: when it's all said and done in the rep, I mean, there's.

797
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: Still a lot of people that got two or three

798
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: chances to show what they could do.

799
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 3: And you're trying to get a high volume of data

800
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 3: points out here with these guys. Yeah, you know, so

801
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 3: you can you can figure out exactly who you need,

802
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: who gonna be on the roster, and then who's going

803
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 3: to fill those roles.

804
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 4: And who's taking it seriously you know, like, yeah, it'd

805
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: be real easy. They're not even like staring at every rep.

806
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: I mean, they know that this is all gonna be

807
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 4: on tape. But who's going to put everything they possibly

808
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 4: can into showing that they can handle these things? Yeah,

809
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 4: drill after drill for drill real fast.

810
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 3: Mason Rudolph working with Roman Wilson on the on the

811
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 3: middle field. Over there is the offensive line working on

812
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 3: some technique stuff as well too, So plenty going on

813
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 3: here is we head towards the final minutes.

814
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: Final moments of practice been a good one.

815
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 5: It has been.

816
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 3: I tell you what, man, Logan Lee just moves well

817
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: for his size.

818
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good, good guy to call out.

819
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 3: He's almost like a grizzly like a grizzly bear, like

820
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 3: runs low to the ground.

821
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, some people told me and I definitely

822
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 4: can see it. Since is you know, OTA's mini camp.

823
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 4: There was a lot of people that were really excited

824
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 4: about Lee yep and fell a little short change that

825
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 4: they lost him last year, but they think he's gonna

826
00:35:59,160 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 4: be a keeper.

827
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 5: I got that, Uh.

828
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 3: I got that same impression when we were down there

829
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 3: at OTAs in minie camp. We got to talk to

830
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 3: him one day, sharp guy.

831
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. Yeah.

832
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 5: Usually yeah, usually the uh you.

833
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: Know, in those settings, the guys that they give us

834
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 3: for interviews are typically people that they think are gonna

835
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 3: be key contributors.

836
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, like like we got Jalen.

837
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: Mooren and Troy Faltanu and Nick Herbig, you know, like

838
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 3: they're typically people that they think are gonna, you know,

839
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 3: be in the exactly right right. I remember my first

840
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 3: year down there in twenty eighteen, and I was talking

841
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 3: about how that was, you know, the year that Lev

842
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 3: Bell set out the whole year and James Connor you know,

843
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: had his Pro Bowl Pro Bowl season, Like there was

844
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: a there was a lot of talk about James Connor

845
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 3: and how they felt that he was primed for a

846
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 3: big season down there. He was one of the guys

847
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: that we got to interview. I remember that that OTAs period.

848
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 3: The reason I remember it is because we talked to

849
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 3: him about taking his boat up to Eerie. Matt, I

850
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: don't know if I don't know if you remember that,

851
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 3: but we spent like five minutes of the interview talking

852
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 3: with him about his summertime and taking his you know,

853
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 3: going now on Lake Erie, you know, all those different

854
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: things that they do up there. So yeah, they typically

855
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 3: the the people that they set up with us for

856
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 3: interviews during that time period, or not guys that they

857
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 3: think are going to be sitting on the bench and

858
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 3: doing nothing.

859
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 5: All season, or an aren't going to make the team

860
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 5: and anything like that. And I I think you're right.

861
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: I think, man, that's that's just an overarching encouraging part

862
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: of this team this year. If you can get Troy

863
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: Foultanu to what we all think and know he's capable of.

864
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 3: If you could get Roman Wilson to be a key,

865
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 3: solid contributor in the wide receiver room, an important piece,

866
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: an important piece. If you can get Logan Lee to

867
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 3: be a contributor in that defensive line room, it's almost

868
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: like an additional boost of this year's rookie class after

869
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 3: losing so many guys last year.

870
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think it's very noteworthy. Is that class has

871
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 4: a lot of promise. We just didn't get to see

872
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 4: it yet, and it's going to be pretty pivotal.

873
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 3: I completely agree with you. I completely agree with you,

874
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 3: And this might might be Roman Wilson's best practice that

875
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: we've seen out here to this.

876
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you's stepping up in general.

877
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.

878
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 3: Let's get to our last break here for the second

879
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 3: hour special Teams period coming to a close. We'll bring

880
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 3: you the conclude to practice and everything with it. We'll

881
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 3: have our around the League segment in the final hour

882
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: of the show. We'll also take a little bit of

883
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 3: a deeper look at the new virtual measurements that are

884
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 3: coming to first downs across the National Football League this season.

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Speaker 5: All that more is we roll along into the bonus

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Speaker 5: hour of the Drive.

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Speaker 3: Was Shouler Matt Williamson with you here at practice in

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Speaker 3: the final moments, as we'll put a bow on this

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Speaker 3: thing and get us some other topics as we roll along.

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